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Raquel Mac Donald
Talented research executive and organizational assistant who steered organizational change initiatives, nurtured accountability, and delivered flawless management support. Game-changing professional supporting organizations, not just with a statement but active plans to change the way they function. Impeccable track record of formulating statistical and operational reports to assist in stakeholder decision-making. Proactively delivered strategic and research assistance to leaders as they work through global program-building strategies.Exceptional in taking initiatives and steering projects to completion.
Currently searching for a data science position that allows me to build tools using visualization and machine learning to help people explore and understand their data.
Education
M.S. in Program Evaluation and Data Analytics
Phoenix, AZ
Arizona State University
2022
- Graduating Dec 2022
- University Graduate
M.A. in International Relations
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Utrecht University
2019 - 2018
- Thesis: U.S. and Park Chung Hee<U+0092>s Yushin Regime: Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy towards South Korea-1972-1979
- University Graduate
Exchange Semester
Seoul, South Korea
Yonsei University
2017
- International Relations & Diplomacy -Korean Language Intensive
Selected Positions
Project Associate
Arlington, VA
CRDF Global
2022
- Worked on the DPRK Counterproliferation Finance team to help conduct trainings worldwide on countering DPRK’s measures to gain currency to fund their WMD programs.
Secretary
the Hague, the Netherlands
Embassy of the Republic of Korea
2021 - 2019
- Programmed embassy team meetings, international and domestic visits, government meetings, and interactions with external agencies. Formulated accurate and timely reports for executive decision-making.
- Strategized Ambassador schedule with calendar management, travel planning, expense management, internal and external meetings, and diplomat conferences.
Graduate Research Assistant
Vanderbilt University
TBILab (Yaomin Xu’s Lab)
2020 - 2015
- Primarily working with large EHR and Biobank datasets.
- Developing network-based methods to investigate and visualize clinically relevant patterns in data.
Research Assistant
Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Netherlands
Tilburg University
2018
- Articulated and managed multiple research projects and completed various data analysis projects. Assisted university professors with a variety of tasks, including preparation for upcoming classes.<U+00A0><U+00A0>
Research Assistant
Netherlands
Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Instant Leadership Solution
2018
- Significantly contributed to the background research for the internationally acclaimed book <U+0091>Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Instant Leadership Solution.<U+0092> Won the NYC Big Book Award in 2021.
Data Science Researcher
Johns Hopkins University
Data Science Lab
2018 - 2017
- Building R Shiny applications in the contexts of wearables and statistics education.
- Work primarily done in R Shiny and Javascript (node and d3js).
Selected Writing
Lithuanian Sunday Show
N/A
Lithuanian Radio & Television
2020
- Discussed the US Presidential election with other attendees and hosts.
Classifying physical activity from smartphone data
N/A
RStudio Tensorflow Blog
2018
- Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
- Contracted article.